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'25 Años de Autonomía del Banco Central de Chile'
Cuando a mediados de los noventa tomé mis primeros cursos de monetaria la autonomía del Banco Central ya era parte fundamental del paisaje económico de Chile. Para ese entonces como había señalado Roberto Zahler algunos años antes al asumir la presidencia del Banco Central ya se observaba 'entre los ...
Determinacy, learnability, and plausibility in monetary policy analysis: additional results
It is almost superfluous to begin by emphasizing that recent research in monetary policy analysis has featured a great deal of work concerning conditions for determinacy—that is, existence of a unique dynamically stable rational expectations equilibrium— under various specifications of policy behavior.1 ...
Monetary policy in Chile: institutions objectives and instruments
Inflation seemed to be an endemic disease of the Chilean economy for most of the 20th century with its presence being felt even before the creation of the Central Bank in 1925. However things seemed to change drastically in the mid 1990s when the country began to experience a sustained process of ...
Enfrentando la vulnerabilidad externa de Chile: un problema financiero
Con los desequilibrios macroeconómicos tradicionales hace tiempo bajo control, el ciclo económico Chileno es determinado principalmente por shocks externos. Más importante aún, la vulnerabilidad externa de Chile es básicamente un problema financiero. Es así como un deterioro en los términos de intercambio ...
Does inflation targeting make a difference?
Inflation targeting is the new kid on the block of monetary regimes. Since New Zealand and Chile first adopted the regime in 1990, a growing number of industrial and developing countries have followed suit, anchoring their monetary policy to explicit targets for inflation.
Monetary policy transmission in emerging markets: an application to Chile
A critical question for emerging-market policymakers is how to adjust to monetary policy changes in the center. A core tenet of modern macroeconomic theory is that countries should let their exchange rate float when financial conditions abroad change. This allows the nominal and real exchange rates ...
Inflation targeting in the context of IMF-Supported adjustment programs
For the last few years, the staff of the Iternational Monetary Fund (IMF) has been engaged in assessing the functioning and effectiveness of inflation targeting in IMF member countries that have adopted this scheme as their monetary policy anchor. This involvement was restricted to the IMF's surveillance ...
Política monetaria en tiempos complejos
Durante los últimos años la economía chilena ha sufrido shocks importantes que han implicado un gran desafío para la conducción de la política monetaria. El fin del súper ciclo de las materias primas y condiciones financieras internacionales más estrechas junto con una caída importante en los niveles ...
Optimal monetary policy in a small, open economy: a general-equilibrium analysis
The two central issues in monetary policy are separated by time horizon. The first relates to the short run: what is the appropriate monetary policy across the business cycle? The second relates to the long run: waht is the optimal long-run rate of inflation? This paper explores these classic issues ...
The relation between monetary policy and financial-stability policy
What is the relation between monetary policy and financialstability policy? How can they be distinguished? How similar or different are they? Should they have the same or different goals? How should they be conducted? Should they be coordinated or conducted separately? Should they be conducted by the ...
Shocks externos y transmisión de la política monetaria en Chile
Este trabajo considera evidencia empírica para una economía pequeña y abierta, caracterizando e identificando los efectos dinámicos de shocks externos y de política monetaria sobre la economía Chilena. Se utiliza la metodología de VAR estructurales con restricciones contemporáneas no recursivas. De ...
Régimen de metas de inflación y credibilidad de la política monetaria en Chile
En este artículo presentamos nueva evidencia de cambios recientes en la dinámica inflacionaria en Chile. Mostramos que las rigideces de precios han aumentado, mientras el grado de indexación a la inflación pasada ha decrecido a lo largo del tiempo. También mostramos que el traspaso del tipo de cambio ...
Forward guidance in hte yield curve: short rates versis bond supply
Since late 2008 when short-term interest rates reached their zero lower bound central banks have been conducting monetary policy through two primary instruments: quantitative easing (QE) in which they buy long-term government bonds and other long-term securities and so-called forward guidance in which ...
Proyección de la inflación en Chile
Este estudio estima dos modelos para la inflación Chilena con parámetros variables para el período 1990 - 1999. El primero está basado en la curva de Phillips y el segundo, en un modelo para una pequeña economía abierta con meta de inflación. Las proyecciones de inflación fuera de la muestra que se ...
Esquemas monetarios alternativos: una evaluación favorable al peso Chileno
La elección sobre mantener una moneda nacional pasa por comparar los beneficios de la flexibilidad macroeconómica de un tipo de cambio flotante y una política monetaria autónoma, y los beneficios microeconómicos de integrarse a una unión monetaria o adoptar una moneda extranjera. Este trabajo analiza ...
Optimal inflation targeting under alternative fiscal regimes
Inflation targeting has become an increasingly popular approach to the conduct of monetary policy worldwide since the early 1990s. Most of the countries that have adopted inflation targeting judge the experiment favorably, at least thus far. In many countries, the adoption of inflation targeting has ...
Monetary policy, interest rate rules, and inflation targeting: some basic equivalences
Monetary policy in small open economies is typically cast as a choice between an exchange rate anchor (fixed or predetermined exchange rates) and a money anchor (floating exchange rates). Under such regimes, the growth rate of the nominal anchor is set according to the desired long-run inflation rate. ...
Una década de metas de inflación en Chile: desarrollos, lecciones y desafíos
Chile fue uno de los primeros países del mundo en adoptar un régimen monetario basado en una meta de inflación anual explícita y pública, incluso cuando el término 'meta de inflación' ni siquiera se había formalizado en la literatura económica. Una historia de alta inflación hacía recomendable la ...
Policy rules and external shocks
The decade since 1990 has been a period of innovation in monetary policy. Around the world, many countries have adopted inflation targeting as their basic policy framework. Different countries have tried different techniques for achieving inflatio targets, such as different choices of policy instruments.
Heterodox central banking
In response to the current global crisis the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world have implemented diverse policy measures including purchasing a wide range of securities lending to financial institutions intervening in foreign exchange markets and paying interest on reserves. ...